I changed my oil today and found...

[hemihustlin]

Two things

Ill start with the positive, i switched from valvoline synpower to pennzoil platinum and my hemi tick is 95-100 per cent gone from the first startup with pp. i dont know what was in the motor when i bought it this summer but it had a pennzoil filter on it so i guess it was that. Immediately when i put the synpower in it the hemi tick came to life and now its gone ( i <3 moly ) lots of thanks to burla ive read lots of his posts on syn oil and he inspired me to go lurk at bitog.com i learned lots!

And on an even more positive note ( in my opinion XD ) i think i found a crack in my manifold! It doesnt make any noise yet but it will the winter! At first i was disappointed but then i was like hell yea LT headers sooner than thought



So hows that for a good oil change
Although a lil negative: i have a bug with my left high beam and drl. Sometimes it goes out, low beam works all the time. Today i changed the bulb and it was the same so i got out the test light. Ground is good but no high beam voltage. Fuse good so i pulled the tipm to find a bunch of taped wires. Previous owner had mentioned something about the tipm being serviced at dodge becuase the flasher didnt work. Anyways i didnt find any loose wire but ran out of time but i know where to continue looking... I have access to mitchell and alldata wiring diagrams

 

[Blackram]

Seems like a great reason to upgrade. Nice find.

 

[bloombloom88]

Nice find, those bolts are gonna be a b**ch to remove!

 

[hemihustlin]

Gotta love oxidization! XD

Thats the passenger side in the back ( the crack in the photo)
I found the heat shield was loose so i ripped it off and hello!

 

[Sparkyy]

Yeah, those bolts looking like a real PITA when the day comes.

I think yours look as bad as mine, maybe worse so keep us posted how that mod goes.

 

[ralaubach]

haha i just used the same excuse. could hear an exhust leak and figured might as well put new gaskets on.....And LT. still waiting to recive in the mail... cant wait.

 

[KGBIGCOUNTRY]

Always nice to have a reason to mod.

 

[FlaglerMegacab4x4]

not to threadjack but I have question about header installs. Ive got the megacab with true duals but factory manifolds so my question is how hard/expensive would it be to install pacesetter LT's?

 

[Chewy]

I've heard amazing stuff about the Penn Plat. I think the G8 will get that in the future instead of Mobil 1. Perhaps the truck too. I don't necessarily want to run syn in it, but the extended oil change intervals are VERY nice.